THE REASON
In fact, I can be easily argue that my brother Tyler secretly cared more about “the money” —a great deal, and more so than perhaps anyone did, and I would include our Venture Capital partners in that statement.
After all, no one else was so profoundly disappointed or upset that they could not even find the words or the forum to express themselves. I spent hours speaking with (not only Tyler), but each of our early (pre-2000) team members, each of whom certainly deserved a better financial outcome then was ultimately possible.
“No one else kept their disappointment hidden;
A personal secret held in such top secret;
Hoping and trying their best to weaponize it;
With the intention of exacting maximum damage.”
Tyler sought to damage emotionally me there and in the moment to be sure, but as with the most destructive weapons mankind has devised, this particular explosive, both fantastical and fraudulent, was carefully crafted and launched at me in a manner that he has since proven was with the intention to see it stick around as a toxic wasteland was made our relationship since, and if were up to him still many decades more yet¹.
Tyler¹ was not alone in effectively choosing to leave me to rot alone in a crucible crafted to hold its toxic remain, and I say it that way in light of just how rare is Tyler’s brand of such profound cruelty to the people who love him. I am far from the first, but I am and he did deeply betray me totally, his own blood brother.
As it turned out, I learned from many family and friends just how Tyler had gone about building upon a devious and on-going campaign of evident hate, one certainly intended as the facts plainly show, only to help increase the magnitude of destruction toward what I believe is perhaps the most fundamental kind of love short of for one’s children; With the power of brotherhood true, comes the benefit of a hope and confidence that only grows as life goes on, each practicing total trust, confiding honestly, and never failing to make peace. In our case I thought we also had as a special “asset” in our relationship from building something truly great, together.
The satisfaction that Tyler took in eroded my character with everyone around me was soon revealed to have been plotted for some time. Whether that period of planning and the ultimate decision to attack was entirely coincidental with the start of his initial debased relationship with the woman who is now his wife is beside the point. For a long time of course I wanted to believe Tyler was not capable of such morally and ethically “dark” and sick behavior —and so I sought to lay the blame (at least some of it), with her. Of course, Tyler has admitted to me that he knows she did intentionally set me up to fail when she came crying to me about his attempted “murder-suicide” —the level of ugliness inside a person necessary to do that, in that particular way, is beyond the scope of this missive. Suffice it to say that I am now confident that they are at the very least, well suited.
At least not with a level of anger, remorse of belief they had been cheated such that their feelings essentially burned its mark into their soul as some kind of holy conviction held on high. Tyler did, and it was revealed to be a grudge held so deeply held against me personally that when it finally did come out it was not only an absolutely unbelievable shock to me and everyone he worked (most of whom contacted me to try to find out why Tyler, their “friend”, cut them out of his life so abruptly and entirely).
While the memory remains to me much more like a remembered nightmare, I watched as Tyler revealed he had decided ahead of time to use this most inappropriate, disingenuous and calculated forum to unleash his bound-up rage. Both Dad and myself were made to hear it trip off of his tongue, like a pronouncement well rehearsed and fired for effect. However, I was made to listen to this wicked lie in front of the one person I most respect in this world —and let’s not pretend Tyler did not know that.
Still, as Tyler maintained that not only that he had been angry³ this entire time (some six years at that point); but also chose to I believe, fabricate an outrageous story wherein he claimed falsely, that I had received “eight times as much” money as he did. Worse, our Dad in his attempt to either be gracious or perhaps simply recognizing Tyler’s capacity to establish false beliefs in his head and tend to them carefully in silence, strained to suggest that perhaps Tyler had for some reason misinterpreted the documents that were sent to each and every shareholder. This is so absurd I will not even bother addressing it, Tyler and I spoke in detail numerous times about the specific dollar outcome for every single individual involved, any suggestion to the contrary I have no alternative but to declare with absolutely certain as nothing less than a wicked lie.
Given the calculated nature and special forum in which this wickedness was unleashed, I felt then as i do now: That it was a deliberate choice to launch one final, diabolical and borderline psychotic attack on the one person who has done more for his financial well-being than anyone ever will, any and all potential inheritance he may or may not receive, included.
Tyler took advantage of the “Mediation Meeting” that our brother Steve had gone to quite some trouble to setup, by using it to declare his very righteous, long-held angry judgment and in so doing, also chose to sentence me to disgrace not only in front of our Dad, but in countless other ways that are clear to me, were in his mind “damning” in nature, and that he surely hoped would stay with and trouble me indefinitely.
PROOF POSITIVE
The link below lead to a page which provides conclusive proof that at the very least, Tyler was grossly wrong on the facts. I would hope that furthermore based on that established fact, it can be easily imagined his damning pronouncement that day and the fact that to date he has maintained his claim without a hint of apology or even the slightest regret, was instead and in fact something far less than honest or genuine, —and that at the very least, so deeply mistaken and to such a ludicrous degree that, when taken alongside the fact that he solely and deliberately aimed to and then did allow it to destroy our brotherhood; Tyler thereby demonstrates still, a level of irresponsibility and recklessness that it belies at least a broken character, and I believe, a complete disregard and an unfair treatment and lack of respect toward me, his own once very close brother, and that presumably at this point, he does so simply just because I happen to be that older brother. (Setting aside of course the root cause of insecurity, etc.).
¹ Witnessed by Tyler’s absolute silence towards me ever since that awful day, compounded by among other things, his stubborn, impertinent and pathetic refusal to even acknowledge the good things that have come to him from my direction… not to mention the “false flag” that was planted when he promised to come to our lake house “filled with apologies and love…” and then failed accordingly, to utter one such word or act in any small way.
² When, in the intervening years since the accusation of cheating Tyler financially, he has in such interim become well over $10 Million Dollars richer entirely by my hand and in fact as a direct result of the outcome I carefully engineered when we left Speakeasy, any fractionally decent person would think to f’ing mention it.
³ Let’s break this down. We are to believe Tyler was so angry and desperate for justice having been terribly mistreated in the financial outcome of Speakeasy, that, among other things he was:
1. Rendered 100% mute, entirely without any sort of ability to communicate or even hint toward his strong feelings
2. That remarkably and in spite of being so upset, that he compelled to state the contrary and otherwise state mis-leading alternative feelings and notion at every opportunity in the multi-year interim
3. …and that all of the above even despite having already received tens of thousands in cash dividend payments from Ookla since the ‘great injustice’ was done to him.
As the one person in our family who knows Tyler at least as well as any of us, I feel it is perhaps most difficult to believe that Tyler sat there upset, for years alone with his false beliefs, and so gravely distraught about being treated so unfairly that he also:
5. Could not be bothered to simply look at the black and white printed page that clearly showed just how wrong his assumptions (“beliefs”, to be generous, “chosen beliefs” to be accurate) really were. Nor could he even think to ask Dad who had a deep familiarity with such details, having been also a beneficiary of the very same transaction. No point in having an Accountant or an Attorney look at it to be certain or confirm the facts —but instead Tyler ostensibly felt it best to simply stay quietly enraged, undoubtedly then lying to my face countless times when I brought up this particular part of our past simply as anyone in our position would.
